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How Baltimore cut its infant mortality rate: Saving the Smallest

Brie Zeltner

December 11, 2015 |

Cleveland.com (The Plain Dealer) |

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Response Location: United States, Baltimore, Maryland

Since B'More for Healthy Babies launched in Baltimore in 2009, Baltimore's infant deaths have dropped by 24 percent, outstripping their home state's progress in the same period by a factor of three, and the nation's by four. Cleveland is at the beginning of its own plan to turn around decades of failure in preventing infant deaths.

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Cleveland group prenatal care helps prevent infant mortality

Brie Zeltner

December 10, 2015 |

Cleveland.com (The Plain Dealer) |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Cleveland, Ohio

Cleveland's infant mortality rate is double the national average. Sugar Mamas is a local program based on the national CenteringPregnancy programs where pregnant women who have diabetes meet twice a month to discuss some of their concerns and support each other to deliver healthy babies. The model helps women become more knowledgeable and also have a support system.

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A fight to keep students in class

Suzette Hackney

November 20, 2015 |

IndyStar (The Indianapolis Star) |

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Response Location: United States, Indianapolis, Indiana

Indianapolis' Howe High School has joined the movement surfacing in America's public schools towards restorative justice. In 2015, in lieu of suspensions and expulsions, Howe's leadership formed a peer justice jury to help fighting students talk through their conflicts and anger. Just one year after the program's inception, the school's expulsion rate decreased 90 percent, saving over 600 hours of what otherwise would have been students' lost classroom time.

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In Florida's tomato fields, a fight for ethical farm labor grows

Patrik Jonsson

November 16, 2015 |

The Christian Science Monitor |

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Response Location: United States, Immokalee, Florida

Sexual harassment and assault, and almost non-existent job security, are just some of the problems that plague migrant workers in the United States. A decade-long farm worker-led effort to push corporations to demand farmers submit to “clean labor” audits has yielded, for the first time, the introduction of shade tents, mandated water and bathroom breaks.

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Inclusion Pays Off

Chris Serres

November 11, 2015 |

Minnesota Star Tribune |

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Response Location: United States, Middlebury, Vermont

Vermont is one of the most advanced states in the country when it comes to disability inclusion and activism. The state stopped funding sheltered workshops in 2002 and chose instead to send that money to individuals to pursue any career path of their choosing by offering services such as job coaching and transportation. As a result, 61% of people with disabilities are employed within a year of receiving state support. At large, nearly 40% of adults with disabilities work alongside adults without disabilities, which is a rate considerably higher than other states.

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Veterans, gang members find peace in unexpected 'brotherhood'

Nissa Rhee

November 11, 2015 |

The Christian Science Monitor |

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Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

The anti-violence program at a YMCA in Chicago has war veterans mentoring young gang members as a treatment for the mental and physical wounds of violence. The gang members have healthy role models and the veterans a new sense of purpose.

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Lifelong Heroes: Meet The Vets Who Rebuild Communities After Disasters

Alexandra Svokos

November 11, 2015 |

Elite Daily |

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Response Location: United States, Columbia, South Carolina

Team Rubicon, a non-profit organization of military veterans that provides disaster relief, has provided relief after flooding in Detroit, tornadoes in Oklahoma, a typhoon in the Philippines and an earthquake in Nepal, among dozens of other communities across the globe.

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Progress in Alaska promising, experts say

Weston Morrow

November 07, 2015 |

Fairbanks Daily News-Miner |

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Response Location: United States, Fairbanks, Alaska

Alaska has come a long way in reducing underage drinking in the past two decades by introducing restorative justice and other programs. Self-reported numbers have declined, as have referrals into the juvenile justice system.

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The Art of Getting Opponents to “We”

David Bornstein

November 03, 2015 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: United States, Washington, District of Columbia

Hyper-polarization on an issue hinders progress. The Convergence Center for Policy Resolution uses conflict resolution classes to help opponents across the U.S. find common ground on social issues like education, nourishing food, and health care.

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Trafficking: One woman's journey from Staten Island slavery to her own boss

Stacy Teicher Khadaroo

November 02, 2015 |

The Christian Science Monitor |

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Response Location: United States, Staten Island, New York

Part 2 of a series on solutions to freeing victims of labor trafficking around the globe. With the help of organizations like Damayan Migrant Workers Association in New York, former victims who have been freed from labor trafficking become advocates for others, demanding changes and becoming part of the solution to a vicious cycle of worker victimization.

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